SRG – AVIATION HOUSE –
UKFSC CHIEF EXEC SUMMARY
- The Agenda for the RISG.
- The TORs for the RISG are currently under review, but the objective of the SG is to ensure co-ordination across a series of specialist working groups dealing with specific aspects of runway incursions. The groups (WG) are Technologies, Publicity, Data Analysis, Aerodrome Ops and Operations.
- As part of the RISG effort to publicise runway incursion information, the use of the UKFSC website and the FOCUS Magazine for posters and articles was offered.
- The
imminent introduction of ATSOCAS in March 2009 requires as wide as publicity as
possible. The dedicated ATSOCAS CD has been pushed out to the commercial
organisations and will shortly be distributed to the private pilot
community. The link to the
- The
Technologies WG was tasked to act as the co-ordinator of information and
outcomes from various runway incursion technology trials underway in the
- Concerns expressed by the RISG about the withdrawal of funding to publicise runway incursion issues across the pilot and ATM community. The need to target new pilots through training was seen as equally important as those already established in the airlines.
- The
plethora of runway incursion groupings in
- The
Chair of the Data Analysis Working Group briefed the findings from the 2007
analysis of runway incursions. Click for the Summary
of the Data. There have been 909 events since 2002 in the
- The value of identifying incursion hotspots and then gathering a team to consider them was advocated. The team should consist of pilots (both regular users and infrequent visitors), ATC and a ramp and taxi chart producer to get a holistic approach and solution.
- The
meeting concluded with a review of technology and results from ongoing trials
aimed at addressing runway incursions. A number of methods to indicate a
taxiway was approaching a runway are being investigated. Examples include a
rumble strip at
Rich
Jones
Chief
Exec
UKFSC